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I’ve been around yard sales, flea markets, and candy stands since I can first recall. I distinctly remember getting up at 4:00 AM when I was four, holding my father’s hand while stumbling sleepily from the house to the car, and sleeping the whole way to the flea market in the cool, humid quietness of […]

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Yesterday was my father’s birthday. He would have been 60 years old. I needed to celebrate his life in some way positive, sort of similar to the 12 hour celebration of life we held in early September. John and I didn’t have a crazy party yesterday, but we did feed our souls with a love for each other and for […]

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I haven’t written for a while. How do you put into simple words that your father drove himself to the job he hated, parked in the parking lot in his 2010 spotless vehicle, and shot himself in the head instead of facing another day in the system? How do you explain that the person you’ve known the most […]

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Finding Inner Peace After War – A Story Shared. People are sometimes intrigued by my jewelry. They ask questions often about where I got them, what they mean, and how long I’ve had them. To me, the beauty of each piece is the story behind it. Every once in a while I’m asked which one […]

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My Journey to Achieve Inner Peace After War. I saw him a few days before it happened. I recognized the look the first time I saw him again last year. It stopped me in my tracks. I had simply asked about his day. His response wasn’t odd. It was a typical answer to a typical question. What […]

I ended up travelling through Lillooet on a whim. I was beginning to feel tired when I passed the turnoff from 29 or 99 or whatever road I was already driving. I pulled over, suddenly second guessing my path, and thinking of Ken, the nice gentleman I met at Ten Mile Lake who recommended the […]